ちはやふる 6 [Chihayafuru 6]

ちはやふる [Chihayafuru] #6

by Yuki Suetsugu

千早に刻み込まれた、クイーン・若宮詩暢の圧倒的な強さ。
より速く、より鋭く――さらなる高みを目指して練習に打ち込む千早の姿は、仲間と周りの人々をつき動かしてゆく。
迎えた公式戦、部員それぞれが目標を掲げて挑む中、千早は、初戦の相手に意外な弱点を見抜かれて……?
競うものはただひとつ――心。瑞沢高校かるた部が、さらなる高みへと突き進む!!

Genres: Manga, Josei, Sports, Romance, Comics, Slice Of Life, Contemporary

191 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2009

About the author

Yuki Suetsugu (末次 由紀 Suetsugu Yuki, born September 8, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist. Her career was put on hiatus after she was discovered of being accountable for plagiarism, including tracing. She later resumed her work on March 2007.

She debuted in 1992 in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine with Taiyō no Romance. Her works later moved to Bessatsu Friend magazine, also published by Kodansha.

On 2009-03-24, her work Chihayafuru was chosen for the Manga Taishō.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_Sue...

Reviews

[Desi A · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chihaya please look at Taichi for once

[Manami Yamaguchi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Today I took a train for about 2hours. This vol.6 was most excited book I’ve ever read. An individual match, B-rank, Taichi vs Nishida, D-rank, Kanade vs Komano. They are all Mizusawa high school karuta club members! I wondered who will win. I really wanted to read a whole book as soon as possible, so I was reading it all the time when I was taking a train. I think you’ll feel so excited, too!

[Daniel Shellenbarger · Rating 5 out of 5]

After Taichi falls short in the B-class finals at the tournament he and Nishida attended at the end of the prior volume, the whole Mizusawa team heads off to another individual tournament. Chihaya finds herself frustrated by her coach's admonition to stop winning with speed and by her opponent, a nice cheerful middle-aged lady who calmly builds a commanding lead by simply taking advantage of Chihaya's faults and accurately taking what's available, forcing Chihaya to acknowledge that speed really might not be everything (gasp!). As for the rest of the team, things take a dramatic turn when the other four team members end up matched against each other in the class B and class D finales, much to Chihaya's delight (because she loves seeing her friends succeed), disappointment (since she wishes she was competing in the A class finale), and horror as she can't watch both at the same time. Finally, with the annual Master/Queen match qualifier coming up, the Empress puts her foot down and tells Chihaya she can't go as her grades are so bad that she's in danger of having to repeat the year if she doesn't buckle down and study for exams and puts her under Komano's guidance for an intense study session.

The highlight of this volume for me has to be the match between Kanna and Komano in the D-class finals. Both of them have been growing in skill in the background and have started to win matches regularly and now we get to see the results of their efforts as the two both put their personal styles of karuta on display, with each embracing different strengths. Komano plays using his analysis, strategy, and focuses on exploiting his opponents weaknesses, while Kanna plays a graceful flawless style built on her love of the poems. On the one hand, by comparison to most of the matches we follow, they're still both kind of rough, but Chihaya ends up watching their match over Taichi and Nishida's largely because their rough original styles offer her more ideas to learn from than Taichi and Nishida's more orthodox and refined play. Other than that, this volume also reminds us that for all that she is quite skilled with karuta, Chihaya is otherwise a bit of a mess as she doesn't study well, her grades are abysmal, and she has no plan for her future other than "becoming Queen," which... doesn't exactly pay the bills.

Anyway, another volume down, another 5 star review.

[Littlebookterror · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volumes shifts the focus away from Chihaya to show us how far the other four on the team have grown. And much deserved.

Kana who loves these poems already and their cultural history and approaches the game from a very different place. Tsutomou who had the steepest learning curve of them all. Nishido who has put his everything in daily trainin. And Taichi who just deserves a break from all the pressure he puts on himself.
They all deserve to win.

[Toast · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a whole lot of ways, not much happens. Sure, there is progress toward promotion and getting better, but for the most part, the entire volume is about Chihaya introspecting while Taichi also wants to rank up. The other karuta club members' existence is also justified, as they are featured in this volume with some emphasis. I think it is mostly a "nothing burger" volume; however, at the same time, I think it's necessary for the story to marinate and feel rewarding when achievements bound to happen in the storyline occur. Fantastic art, as always.

[afton · Rating 5 out of 5]

27 december 2024 - book four. love this volume because it shows how analytical playing a masterful a karuta match can be. chihaya is learning different techniques in order to improve her game, whilst the other team members are trying to approve their rank as well as techniques. KODANSHA PLEASE PRINT THE ENGLISH VOLUMES I BEG

[yam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love how this volume focuses more on the other teammates in the karuta club - the author is good in inclusivity, portraying that not only Chihaya is changing and excellent in karuta, but everyone else are just as good too. This volume made me support them so much! They deserve to win respectively~

[AsianMerr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yep this is some good stuff, having everyone in the club but the captain in the final competing each other was really good. Chihaya getting her confidence back will be fun to see and Arata is back in the game. Overall the series is getting slowly better!!

[Jesica · Rating 4 out of 5]

BLOG: www.adictaxictoxico.blogspot.com.co

Yo quiero jugar karuta--!!!
porque aqui no hay... :(
Me encantaria ser parte de este grupo de amigos... ;)

[Annemarie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great to read while waiting for the bus.

[Ria · Rating 5 out of 5]

The kana/komano match's tension was so good/well-done *o*

[El · Rating 5 out of 5]

4,5

[Liz Davidson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Series is still keeping my attention. I appreciate the depictions of friendship, friendly competition, and learning from defeat.

[Maya · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is where it goes from good to great 😭

[catherine ♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

So satisfying to see Chihaya learning and getting better. The pacing is also really working for me so far.

[Amber · Rating 3 out of 5]

not really much i have to say about this volume, however I will say that the match between kana-chan and desk-kun was really exhilarating and I am beyond happy that chihaya is looking at the big picture and learning from those around her. at the same time, feel bad for taichi, he's worked so hard and he just has such bad luck T-T but I'm also glad for nishida, he deserved to go up in rank.

[Manisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

~~~~~LOOOOOVED IIIITTTTTTT~~~~~~~~~

[Samantha wickedshizuku Tolleson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume begins with Chapter 30-35.

That's all for now until I hit editing mode...
Ta-ta Pretties!